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Patent GB-418942-A (GB)
Title: Improved method of protecting goods against vermin and insects
IPC: A01M19/00
Filed: 1933-12-16
Abstract: A process for destroying insects and their eggs in goods such as furniture, fabrics and furs and for protecting such goods against attack, consists in heating the articles to a temperature sufficient to coagulate the albumen of the organisms, cooling to about freezing point and storing the articles at low temperature. The heating is preferably carried out by introduction into a chamber pre-heated to about 60 to 65 DEG  C. and provided with air circulating means, and the articles are then transported directly, as by means of a conveyer or elevator, to a chamber maintained at 1,5 to 2 DEG  C. and stored therein.  The articles may be mechanically cleaned or washed before treatment and may be re-conditioned by treatment with dry or moist air when removed from the cold storage chamber.  The articles may be treated and transported whilst hanging loosely on clothes stands, and may be enclosed in insect-proof paper bags during and after treatment.
Patent GB-1458880-A (GB)
Title: Fluid dispensing system and calculator
IPC: G07F15/00
Filed: 1974-12-24
Abstract: 1458880 Automatic control of fluid dispensing PAN-NOVA Inc 24 Dec 1974 [26 Dec 1973]  35508/75 Divided out of 1458879 Heading G3N [Also in Division G4] A system for dispensing fluid e.g. petrol in response to money deposited includes a device which computes monetary pulses from input signals indicating fluid-flow and a unit price. These pulses are converted into first and second signals generated at each half increment and full increment respectively in total price of fluid dispensed. A second monetary pulse is developed by each first signal produced, thus indicating the running price to the nearest penny for example, except when only one increment of credit remains, in which case the second monetary pulse is developed by the second signal. A change accumulator continuously computes the change due to a customer from deposited credit pulses and the second monetary pulses. As shown in Fig. 2, a segmented disc 24 is driven by a petrol flowmeter 15 causing a fibre optic arrangement to feed pulses at the rate of 400 per gallon to a logic circuit into which the price per gallon is manually set 50 and which energizes unit price and gallonage liquid crystal displays 51, 52. Computed monetary pulses are fed to a sale and change logic circuit which uses BCD counters to calculate the running price to the nearest penny, the number of tokens deposited by a customer, and the change due at any time. If the customer stops the flow before delivery is complete, and replaces the delivery nozzle, a further counting circuit Fig. 7 (not shown), causes change to be delivered in coins of three denominations if necessary. If no stop signal is given, the last penny of credit is detected, causing full delivery of the last increment of fluid instead of stopping at the halfincremental point which is used for change calculation and rounding purposes. The pump is automatically switched off through a slow flow valve stage. The apparatus may be operated by the introduction of tokens, coins or paper money, detection being made by the interruption of a fibre optical light circuit, Fig. 1 (not shown).
Patent GB-1131680-A (GB)
Title: Vernier control with automatic release
Inventor: HOUK RICHARD DAVID
IPC: F16C1/12
Filed: 1967-08-03
Abstract: 1,131,680. Bowden mechanisms. MORSE CONTROLS Inc. 3 Aug., 1967 [29 Sept., 1966], No. 35618/67. Heading B7E. A vernier adjusting device comprises a rod 29 ball-and-slot connected to a sleeve 28 housing a rotatable but slidably fixed plug 39 connected to a control cable 12. A straight pull on rod 29 pulls on 12 to give a coarse control, but rotation of 29 causes the ball 46 to move on cam 48 into engagement with a helical thread 44 in an outer housing 19, see also Figs. 4 and 5 (not shown), so that further rotation of 29 produces a finely controlled pull on 12. In Fig. 3 the knob which is fixed on the rod 29 may rotate the rod relative to the sleeve 28 until the ball 46 is cammed into engagement with the thread 44, the ball 30 allowing the rod 29 and sleeve 28 to move axially together for coarse control. A compressive collar acts frictionally on the sleeve 28 to permit relative rotational movement between the rod and sleeve.
Patent GB-336844-A (GB)
IPC: H01M50/583
Filed: 1929-11-21
Abstract: 336,844. Rheinische Metallwaarenund Maschinenfabrik. Nov. 29, 1928, [Convention date]. Blasting and projectile fuzes.-Relates to time fuzes of the kind in which gas produced by electrolysis closes a firing switch after a given time. According to the invention, the chamber c in which the gas is generated is shut off from the switch c<6>, e by a membrane c<2>, which is removed or broken by the gas pressure when this attains a predetermined value. The gas pressure then acts through a port c<3> and forces the plug c<6> against a spring c<5> and between the contacts e, thereby closing the firing circuit k. The chamber c is of glass protected by a metal sheath c<1>, and is arranged with the switch and with a battery g in a wooden casing a lined with metal b. The operation is started by the breaking of an electrolyte container g<1> by means of a plunger h. This electrolyte energizes the battery g connected to the electrodes f of the gas-generating chamber through a resistance i, which can be adjusted to determine the time of operation of the fuze.
Patent GB-1484099-A (GB)
Title: Device for transferring slaughtered poultry
IPC: B65G47/61
Filed: 1975-09-01
Abstract: 1484099 Transferring poultry between overhead conveyers STORK BRABANT BV 1 Sept 1975 [10 Sept 1974] 35939/75 Heading B8A Poultry hanging on shackles 9 suspended from an endless conveyer chain (1) (Fig. 2, not shown) are successively transferred from the shackles 9 so that their legs are engaged between downwardly sloping guides 13, 14, on which the poultry is conveyed by gravity, thereby to engage and be conveyed outwardly by shackles 12 of a conveyer chain 3. The guides 13, 14, may alternatively be level; in which case the poultry are conveyed along them by the action of endless chains 27, 28. A stop 18 holds the poultry from proceeding from the guides 13, 14, until an empty shackle 12 on the conveyer chain 3, engages a feeler 23. This causes the stop 32 and a deflector member 19 to be simultaneously actuated. The width of the space between the guides 13, 14, may be adjusted by screws 15a, 15b. A feeler 22 detects the presence of a shackle 9 on the conveyer chain 1 and causes the actuation of a deflector 16. In a modification (Fig. 3, not shown) however, the poultry engage automatically parts of the guides 13, 14, that are bent round so as to lie parallel for a short distance, with the axis of the chain 1.
Patent GB-877478-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to alternating current synchronous electric motors
IPC: H02K1/12
Filed: 1959-10-26
Abstract: 877,478. A.C. motors. MIDGLEY, A. M. March 18, 1960 [Oct. 26, 1959], No. 36146/59. Class 35. In a self-starting A.C. synchronous motor comprising a field structure 2 formed of two sets of annularly arranged interspersed field poles 3, 4 of opposite instantaneous polarity when energized and a permanent magnet rotor 1 having only two poles N, S, each rotor pole is so constructed as to span the polar area of approximately one half the total stator field and is so divided into a plurality of sub-poles 16 . . . 20 that the rotor assumes the idle position shown of minimum reluctance when the field is de-energized and will immediately rotate when the field is energized. The motor is applicable to driving clocks and timers, and may embody gearing 14, 15 in its connection between the rotor shaft 11 and an output shaft 13. Specification 855,450 is referred to.
Patent GB-431999-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to precision drilling and like machines
IPC: B23Q17/22
Filed: 1934-12-18
Abstract: 431,999. Eyepieces. LINDNER, H., 9, Lubarser Strasse, Wittenau, Berlin. Dec. 18, 1934, No. 36265. Convention date, May 12. [Class 97 (i)] [See also Group XXII] A microscope for reading the measuring scales of a precision drilling machine has a fixed reading plate f provided with parallel graduations 0-5 and a rotatable reading plate g provided with spiral graduations s and a circular scale s<1>. The spiral graduations indicate tenths and hundredths of a millimeter, together with the graduations 0-5, and the circular scale indicates thousandths of a millimeter. In use, the first spiral s and the mark 0 are brought over a graduation 6<a> on a linear scale on the machine, the table carrying the microscope is displaced through the required number of millimeters as indicated by another graduation 6b (not shown) on the linear scale and the reading plate g is rotated to register the required number of thousandths of a millimeter on the scales 0-5 and s<1>. The table is then displaced again until the graduation 6b on the linear scale is under the first spiral s.
Patent GB-326241-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fog or the like signalling devices for railways
IPC: B61L5/24
Filed: 1928-12-10
Abstract: 326,241. Littler, W. Dec. 10, 1928. Detonator apparatus .-Detonators 7 are removed from a vertical magazine 6 by gripping-jaws 8, 10 on a radial arm 1, moved by a link 30 from a lever 29 carrying a separator strip 31 which is inserted between the detonator about to be removed and the next one. The gripping jaws 8 is pivoted and held closed by a cam 11 and counterweight 15, Fig. 4, which is raised as by a lever 41 and roller 18 moving over a cam surface 26, 19, and acting on a step cam 16 on the shaft 12 of cam 11, Figs. 1 and 5, so as to open the jaws as they pass through receptacle 24 on the way towards the magazine and release the detonator after removal from the rail 25. On the forward stroke of the arm 1 the lever 41 is ineffective as it pivots the other way. The outer end of the radial arm 1 is supported on a roller 34 running on a surface 35. Electric contacts 32 are closed by the arm 1 in passing and actuate a bell, lamp, or other indicator in the signal box.
Patent GB-857701-A (GB)
Title: Electronic monitoring system for colour printing
Inventor: WALL REGINALD LUKE BLIGH
IPC: G01J3/46
Filed: 1955-12-19
Abstract: 857,701. Photo-electric monitoring. PRINTING, PACKAGING & ALLIED TRADES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. Jan. 4, 1957 [Dec. 19, 1955], No. 36366/55. Class 40(3). A system for continuously monitoring the colour density of the print output of a colour printing machine comprises photo-electric means for generating and storing pairs of electrical signals, the ratio between which represents the colour density of the print and means for comparing these with another ratio of photo-electrically generated electric signals representing a standard density. Light from a source 1 is chopped at 2 and focused on a print 6 whence it is reflected to a signal photo-cell 7 to produce pairs of signal pulses representing the colour density of the print and the dark level. Light from a second source 9 is chopped in synchronism to create pairs of reference pulses in a second photo-cell 8 (which may instead be on the same side of the chopper as the source 1 and receive light reflected from the chopper 2 - Fig. 1, not shown refers). The signal pulses are then pre-amplified, inverted and fed to a two stage direct coupled amplifier and a difference amplifier which amplify and compare it with ground voltage and feed a pulse representing the amplified difference to a diode and condenser of a D.C. restoration circuit to correct the signal reference level to zero volts. The signal pulse is then fed to gating circuits A and B which are controlled by the reference pulses to allow the two pairs of pulses (representing respectively the print and dark levels and the plain and dark levels) to pass alternately to MILLER storage circuits A, B in which they are held constant for comparison in a centre zero moving coil indicator where deviation from the standard is detected and used to operate correction means. Before use the indicator is calibrated by a print of standard colour density.
Patent GB-1417193-A (GB)
Title: Electric motor switch control assembly
IPC: H02K11/00
Filed: 1972-11-01
Abstract: 1417193 Retractive switches GENERAL ELECTRIC CO 1 Nov 1972 [21 April 1972] 36377/74 Divided out of 1417192 Heading H1N The subject matter is the same as described in Specification 1,417,192 but the claims are directed to the retractive switch only. (For Figures see next column.)
Patent GB-934257-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the manufacture of bread dough
Inventor: BAKER DAVID KING
IPC: A21C5/00
Filed: 1959-10-27
Abstract: 934,257. Dividing and panning dough. BAKER PERKINS HOLDINGS Ltd. Oct. 21, 1960 [Oct. 27, 1959], No. 36430/59. Class 87(2). In a process for making bread a supply of dough is fed to a divider panner, Fig. 4, arranged to form at least three pieces of dough at each cycle, each piece of dough 30 being of predetermined weight, and the overall length of the pieces not exceeding the length of a baking pan 15, Fig. 9A, into which the dough is deposited. A supply of the pans is fed past the divider 26 on a conveyer, or on a dead plate fed by a conveyer, the motion of the pans being arrested in timed relation by a pivoted air operated lever. In operation, dough is fed into a hopper 13, Fig. 4, from a mixer and a knife 27 is traversed across the hopper by a cam operated lever 31 to cut off a quantity of dough into the top box 25. A piston 28 is moved across the top box 25 to compact the dough and a divider box 26, having partitions 34, is moved simultaneously into alignment with the top box 25 so that dough is forced by the piston 28 into the divider box 26 until ejectors 29 therein contact a fixed weight regulating bar 44, Fig. 6. The divider box 26 is now moved to the position shown in Fig. 4 where the pieces of dough 30 are removed by the ejectors 29. The Provisional Specification states that as an alternative the divider may have four or more vertically disposed pockets into which dough is fed from a hopper by a pair of opposed horizontal rollers carrying a series of radially mounted knives, which reciprocate in slots in the rollers to feed dough from the hopper downwardly, the knives then separating to allow the dough to fall into division pockets, the knives also being reciprocated to close the lower ends of the pockets at timed intervals, and thereafter to open them to allow the pieces of dough to fall or be ejected into a pan. Specification 934,256 is referred to.
Patent GB-632584-A (GB)
Title: Safety fastening of easy manipulation
IPC: B66C1/12
Filed: 1946-12-12
Abstract: 632,584. Chain couplings ; stud and keyhole fastenings. HUIZINGA, B. B. Dec. 12, 1946. No, 36677. Convention date, Sept. 16, 1942. [Classes 24 and 44] In a fastener of the type in which a female member has an opening comprising two eyelets of unequal size connected by a narrow slot, while the male member has an enlarged part which can be passed through the larger eyelet of the first member, and a smaller part which can slide along the narrow slot so as to bring the enlarged part into engagement with the smaller eyelet, the male member has a separate part in the form of a separate link coupled directly or indirectly thereto and of such a size as to slide along the slot. In the form shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 9, the male member comprises a hook 4 of flat material, and a ring 5. Ring 5 and hook 4 are passed through the eyelet 8 of the female member, and the chain lowered until one of the long links 2 is opposite the slot 9. A long link will pass therethrough, but not a short link 3, owing to the dependant flanges bordering the slot. In fully engaged position, the hook 4 engages the smaller eyelet 6. In the form shown in Fig. 11, one or other of the long links 12 can be passed through the slot between the eyelets of the female member but the end ring 10 will not pass the small eyelet. In another construction, Figs. 17, 18, the hook 16 has a cross-pin 19 which cannot pass through the small eyelet 17 of the female member, and is connected to a chain &c. by a link 20 small enough to pass sideways through the slot 21.
Patent GB-364293-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to bee or honeycomb foundation sheets
IPC: A01K47/02
Filed: 1930-12-05
Abstract: 364,293. Beekeepers' appliances. LEE, R. G. L., George Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex. Dec. 5, 1930, No. 36791. [Class 5 (ii).] A honeycomb foundation sheet is provided with a continuous embedded wire reinforcement 11 extending in a zig-zag manner between the top and the bottom or the two sides of the sheet the angles between adjacent runs being acute. The comb frame comprises a wide top member 1 having with a middle slot 2, a pair of channelled side members and a bottom member formed by two strips secured to the side members. The foundation sheet 8 has its upper edge situated in the slot 2, its side edges in the channels of the side members and its lower edge between the two strips of the bottom. Nails 16 are driven in to the top member 1 so as to pass between the runs of reinforcing wire at the angles 15, and so to support the sheet and similarly nails may, if desired, be driven through the angles at the bottom to secure the sheet to the bottom strips. In a modification the upper edge of the foundation rests on a stepped part of the top member of the frame and is gripped by a clamping piece nailed down on it. Plain, instead of channelled, side pieces may be used in the frame. The reinforcing wire may be crimped instead of straight and it may be formed of two or more wires twisted together. In another modification the reinforcement extends from one side to the other of the frame alternate runs being horizontal and inclined ; similarly the reinforcement may extend from top to bottom of the frame alternate runs being vertical and inclined.
Patent GB-1033489-A (GB)
Title: Prefabricated sectional furniture structure
IPC: F16B12/02
Filed: 1964-09-09
Abstract: 1,033,489. Sectional furniture. F. W. REILLY. Sept. 9, 1964 [Sept. 28, 1963], No. 36822/64. Headings A4B and A4H. Prefabricated sectional furniture, e.g. tables, counters, showcases and shelving, is formed from horizontal beams supported and interconnected by elongated upright posts A, each having an inwardly facing longitudinal channel 22 with side walls extended to form diverging wings 24, 25, between which are clamped the ends of the beams, by means of corner blocks D, Fig. 5, or corner plates 72, Fig. 3 (not shown). The posts A may also have an outwardly facing channel 21 with apertures through which are passed screws 75 to secure the blocks D or plates 72 and beams to the posts A. An arcuate cover 32 or 29 may conceal the channel 21. A pair of posts B, C, Fig. 11 (not shown), connected by a web 38 may be used to connect aligned beams. Each beam has mitred ends and a U-shaped channel defined between walls 46, 47, 48 in which a corner block D or plate 72 is positioned. A key 55 may be provided to engage in a channel in the corner block D. The corner plates 72 may be secured to shelves 71. The beams may also have tracks 50 to receive the ends of sliding doors or walls, and a recess above wall 46 is provided to accommodate a top 37.
Patent GB-910224-A (GB)
Title: Support system for cryogenic liquid storage tank
IPC: F17C13/08
Filed: 1960-10-27
Abstract: 910,224. Storing liquefied gases. CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON CO. Oct. 27, 1960 [Dec. 7, 1959], No. 36842/60. Class 8(2). A support system for a cryogenic liquid storage vessel 16 comprises a plurality of padplates 17 secured to the vessel and engaged by open looped tension members 15 suspended from an elevated structure spaced from the vessel. As shown, the elevated structure is the support structure for an outer shell 10 which is insulated from the vessel 16, a reinforcing member 13 encircling columns 11 being provided, to which is attached, e.g. by welding, gusset plates 14 having connected thereto the ends of the tension members 15. The latter may each be a bar as shown or a chain or a cable one end of which is adjustably attached to the elevated structure, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown). The vessel 16 may be of aluminium, stainless steel or nickel steel, the material employed for the tension members preferably having a lower coefficient of thermal conductivity than that for the vessel. The shell 10 may be of metal sheet or foil in which case the elevated structure may consist of horizontally placed circular or polygonal reinforcing members positioned by a plurality of peripherally spaced columns.
Patent GB-932714-A (GB)
Title: An improved cooling system for brakes
Inventor: CUSSONS RICHARD CLEMINSON
IPC: F16D65/78
Filed: 1958-11-17
Abstract: 932,714. Cooling brakes. DUNLOP RUBBER CO. Ltd. Nov. 10, 1959 [Nov. 17, 1958], No. 36861/58. Class 103 (1). [Also in Group XXIX] A mechanism for controlling the supply of cooling liquid to brakes comprises a pump 2 supplying cooling liquid through a filter 8 to a valve mechanism 4 which operates, under the control of the hydraulic pressure supplied to the brake operating mechanism to supply cooling liquid via passages 12 and 11, through pipes 7a and 7c to the brake 3 and tank 1 respectively in definite proportions according to the hydraulic pressure in the brake operating mechanism. The valve mechanism 4, shown in detail in Fig. 2, distributes the cooling liquid between pipes 7a and 7c according to the hydraulic pressure in the lines 5 leading to the brake operating mechanism, the latter pressure acting against the end of a piston 15 which is advanced to cause movement of a spool valve 14 against spring 20 to vary the proportion of cooling liquid supplied through pipe 7b between pipes 7a and 7c. In order to equalize flow through the two passages 11 and 12 and the intermediate position of the spool valve 14, a tapping of the pressure of cooling liquid in the brake passage 12 is taken via duct 25 to one side of a shuttle 23 causing this to move downwards freely until the pressures on its opposite end faces are equal. Specification 932,713 is referred to.